Poirot S05E06 - The Chocolate Box [FULL EPISODE] Agatha Christie's Poirot

[Music] hey [Music] uh [Music] can't you understand it's our future and belgium's future that i'm thinking of the catholic church has narrowed your mind marianne just as it has my mother's but don't you see paul you keep asking me to choose between you and my faith i can't believe what you're saying marianne you mean fresh ideas have no place in your mind my god we're into a new century but you are stuck in the last just like your damned clergy attacking the church won't help belgium paul it'll turn the people against you i don't attack it i wanted to open its eyes and as my wife the wife of a government minister you should support me in that i married you for love paul not to advance your political career marianne come back here [Music] uh [Music] well kwara how does it feel being back in brussels again after so many years in the eye of my mind inspector i have never left [Music] places bound to have changed that that's right but we are not here for the memory lane of juarez we come to the paying of the tributes to your good self to be made a companion de la brunch door it is the highest honor my country can beast uh very kind of belgium yes but all i've done over the years is my job i'm not a doral chief inspector time and again ever since the abercrombie forgery case you have helped the belgian police and my country it is great petty emily couldn't come still i think she's right brussels is a far cry from israelith her loss is my game it is an honor to deputize chantalia [Laughter] 20 years and you look the same is this herman amir you're not the chief inspector of course we've worked together often congratulations on your new appointment sir commentator please however did you manage sir when he went off to england he wasn't always so clever chief inspector you remember paul derula i remember that it was not i who made the mistakes in that case it was everyone else the old modesty lives on paul derila died of natural causes hercule the verdict of the court is there for all time and it is wrong tell me what i'm a disinterested party let me be the judge of this it was just before the war chief inspector his death was reported to the police in the uh that was the first mistake that the ruler case began two years earlier when his wife marianne fell down the stairs to the death an accident burrow the belgian philosopher himself george taverner said to me he said [Music] there is no such thing as an accident however we shall let that pass on the night of his death paul derola was entertaining some friends seated around the table were vergini mena next to her the distinguished friend of paul lucont de centalar at the head of the table the mother to pull madame de rolla and at her side her confidante and advisor an old family friend gaston beaujol virginia was cousin to marianne the dead wife of paul a new language law paul what exactly does it say from now on all commands in the army must be given in flemish as well as french all i pray is that you and your friends in government have no plans for the mass to be said in flemish paul now i see it this law is just the tip of the iceberg your late wife always said that one day you get your claws into the church absurd well sit down santel before you make a fool of yourself the press knows you're against the catholic church paul for your own sake i forbid you to say any more and given half the chance he would appease the kaiser as well then i suppose we'd all be speaking german another chocolate mr bourgeois [Music] after dinner it was left to gaston beaujour in his customary role as mediator to soothe the troubled waters thank you you and santella have been friends too long to fall out over politics he lives in the past a divided belgium cast on fleming's to the north walloons to the south that's our history not our future but if germany attacks where will he stand then in the front line my friend have no fear he would take them on single-handed at around midnight the guests departed madame retired to her nightly devotions and the derola household slept all except paul a slave to insomnia who returned to his study in order to work [Music] paul had a reputation for his austerity and discipline he did however have two vices the pursuit of his career and chocolates [Music] [Music] oh [Music] my duties as a junior police officer involved my regular attendance of the court of the coroner and you agree the death of paul derola was treated by all those concerned as a matter of routine indeed not your honor those giving evidence saw no reason to question the death of paul and at first neither did i play the principal witness in the case was my superior superintendent boucher might have been the case nothing whatsoever mr researched the house and found nothing underwater you may step down ladies and gentlemen i am more than satisfied that paul derelict's death though a tragedy of course was due to heart failure and i give my verdict accordingly that can't be right you have further evidence ma'am is elmina i tell you he can't just have died well why'd you take everyone at their word i would advise you mamoezel to guard your remarks when addressing me forgive her for she is much affected by the death we will look after her my colleague chantalia and i felt the case was being dismissed too readily and although we were only there as observers we decided it was our duty to raise the matter with superintendent bushi superintendent one moment if you please sean talia and myself we would be very happy to investigate further the derola case what form may i ask uh the outburst of the young lady in court can can we ignore that and also the victim he was a government minister that is precisely why you will put it out of your mind faro superintendent race is closed gentlemen but it was an invitation most unexpected which ensured that the case was not closed [Music] why have you kept a secret from me what are you talking about henry the young lady i spoke to you about wait she's a table five ah mercy she asked for you especially by name by mustache would you take a seat please merci i was in court manuezel when you expressed a certain doubt concerning the death of mr pulderola how can he have died of heart failure he was such a robust man and that he's all upon which you bet your dad he's apparent good health and some feminine instinct monsieur you believe in such a thing perhaps why is it that you come to me a friend of mine is a secretary at the local paper the editor mentions your name often a spark in the otherwise dull embers of the police force he says huh he's a man of perception will you help me miss her mozilla have been told that the question is closed but i am do some leave which i shall take a difficult smile to resist yes indeed [Music] if you think that the young lady and not the case attracted me you do me a wrong cloth yet you still wear the trinket she gave you this one yes sure if you think the poirot could not see beyond that smile must be witching and that our charm was such that chief inspector are you for phrase in english which means the same oh nothing as crisp as yours sir uh we just tend to say something like my words there'll be a woman at the bottom of it somewhere yeah it's the comp the santa la com will you join us have you come to interfere in yet more business that doesn't concern you to ruin a few more reputations as mayor of this city sunderland your reputation has never been better no thanks to this meddling upstart i swore to myself paro the next time i saw you no matter when it was the very next time if that's the belgian aristocracy it's about time you had a revolution he was not entirely unprovoked chief inspector i was there poirot you didn't do anything but you were not there all those years ago nami when i gave him calls to resent me this um companion de la branch door they're awarding me para i mean what exactly is a branch door it is the golden branch of an olive tree one i mean in greek mythology he who carried it became invincible very useful in our line of work as much of his vector do we know who's presenting it yet by tradition it must be a fellow companion but who it will be is yet undecided the wife wanted royalty of course but i'm not fussy ah the derula house it has changed very little [Music] the refusal of superintendent boucher to further investigate her death had angered me so it was that in the company of virginia i began my own enquiries on arriving at the derola house i met for the first time madame darula you must introduce the young man belgium she doesn't bring home any friends monsieur i am a policeman i've seen too much of the police lately mr apollo and all have believed that your son he died of heart failure madame i see the work of your hand in this healthy need forgive me madam but for paul's sake i couldn't live with my doubts perhaps i might be able to put a mind of rest madam when perhaps i have seen the study and spoken with your servants who is this lady the wife of monsieur dorella yes marianne my cousin she died two years ago an accident here in the house paul never really got over it so he kept her in the desk out of sight out of mind perhaps paul and his mother had a permanent tussle i never really quite understood paul would hide the photograph in the draw his mother would bring it out again i'd like you to meet akio pyro i would urge you to be mindful of madame de roulette's feelings she has lost a son i shall be discretion itself but if a crime has been committed you will agree that justice must be served huh but these were made by a guest at your table the other night lucondo santalad yes he always brings a box when he visits and the night of the death of ponderola yes we we had some with our coffee what color was the box at the table pink are you satisfied it was not of the two colors the pink and the green comes on oh how curious i wonder i just told you both halves were pink then i suggest that there is somewhere a second box one with a green lid and the pink mess if anyone knew the whereabouts of the missing chocolate box it would be the derelict servants version took me to meet them this is denise the cook and jeanette the maid where's francois denis i think he's taking the afternoon off man the chocolate box comprising the other two halves had been removed by the 80 year old butler francois that's the trouble with going back over crimes the evidence gets lost i agree that is usually the case but not this time stephen's back though the servant francois had taken the box of chocolates to give to a lady friend over here please steven's back there between these two pillars therefore we must indeed we must i have promised most faithfully to madam jet to bring her back to photographs is this all right to take now i should do the trick for it thank you lady friend there's francois you said he was nearly 80. only an englishman would see the contradiction there man i mean i found them seated at the cafe playing chess eating what was left of the chocolate and the fact they were still alive told you their box wasn't poison i see some more but this is the same box of chocolates that you handed around on the night of the tragedy by the same box but with a different leadness huh i don't know help yourself ah no mercy tell me monsieur have you ever had any disagreements with your employer over what his easy ideas about religion his accommodation of the flemish language i'm too old to quarrel over trivial matters messiah and yet there was an argument over dinner was that not between le contes and elarini's host check said the la attacked my employer for being a liberal and madame de rola his mother she's also a liberal sadly no a good catholic monsieur devout like centaular tell me francoise does any of the household use poisons i do battle with the rats from time to time but uh not in the last three months and does anyone take the medications perhaps there are madames eye drops but would they be poisonous your move [Music] [Music] tell me this minute what is between you and this vilgeniemi now jean-luc your long nose will be the death of you your safety is all the concerns me thank you inside this envelope are crumbs of chocolate i want you to tell me by your analysis exactly what they contain and whether or not they contain poison now you feeling a regular prescription for madame de roland for the eye drops atropine atropine now could these atropine kill a man if drunk by the leader perhaps ah the death of monsieur de la la we and the servant francois brings you this prescription once a month that's right although last week their neighbor brought it gaston bushes yes he required medication of his own i waited eagerly for the results of the analysis of jean-luc this was my first investigation as a private detective but my good friend chantalier was about to remind me that the day when fuero could rule his own destiny was yet to come [Music] i've been looking everywhere for you why there is a problem i gave you my word achioli didn't hear it from me but superintendent boucher wants to see you i'll wait will i need earplugs i've had what i'm derailing here she has friends in high places paro xavier santilla for one he's likely to be the next mayor of brussels and as such could make my life extremely difficult whereupon i will make yours even more so and what exactly have you found out hmm just so that we know it is my belief that mr paul darala was poisoned and poisoned by a chocolate made by the next mayor of this city god in heaven man you don't just harass his friends your accuser look bad accuse no one yet [Music] tell us what did bruce say oh about my findings he was impressed i did not say favorably impressed hercule for your own sake you've got to drop this oh please version e make him see sense i hope i haven't made things awkward for you okay not at all six o'clock i have coming to my apartment a friend of mine who is a chemist and he is going to tell me exactly what those chocolates contain if you are finished would you come and meet him yes [Music] [Music] so [Music] wait i haven't told you how grateful i am for your help right nothing but uh perhaps perhaps this will say it for me [Music] [Music] you should not have you see some people might have thought me mad perhaps you did but at least you gave me the benefit of the doubt [Music] ah how cute it is exactly as we thought the crumbs you gave me oh thank you so much for everything you're doing to help me wait wait i have the police wait [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mr beaujolais what's happening explain yourself my heart warro but pills the whisker [Music] do not worry monsieur we will get you to a hospital [Music] what was he after in all flat the envelope containing the crumbs of chocolate which weren't there anyway now your chemist friend on his analysis oh yeah crumbs contained a substance called trinitrin it is taken for the high blood pressure and jean louis have made up an urgent prescription for gaston bonjour two days before the murder so you've got it and what these mochi is back to the taste of those beers he's so vile that they were made of chocolate wait a minute why did chantalia say that you made a pig zero this one because that is what i allowed him to believe perhaps the time has now come to straighten the record oh um so this look they're all companion de la branch door are they each and everyone a hero not what you'd call ya are they young at heart perhaps [Music] bienvenidos [Music] oh [Music] i look around this hall today and i see nothing but heroes men who have made great sacrifices today we honor an english policeman for services beyond the call of duty and as he joins the ranks of the invincible few i proclaim james harold a companion de la branch doe viva companion [Applause] ah congratulations chief inspector it's an honor to be one of your select companies sir don't forget our reunion dinners are quite something and you must tell them that i'm sharp we expect her here next time congratulations chief inspector um come let us have some food i think it's uh help yourself time pour out not a bad chat though beau sure once you start talking no i am sure of it but you had him down as a suspect at one stage well even the good chaps can sometimes kill their fellow men chief inspector i believe paul derulad was poisoned with trinity pills that you take for high blood pressure someone stole my puro from the house from my coat i can't be sure i would like to think that you're innocent was you but you told her no one of the pills were missing and then you broke into my apartment presumably to steal the crumbs of chocolate evidence which might incriminate you i'm going to take you into my confidence sparrow which you must promise to respect i give you my word monsieur i work for belgian intelligence and my present job is to find out just who in the government would collaborate with germany if she wedges war so paul deroller was not so much a friend as a minor information unwittingly yes then let us hope that for his indiscretions he did not pay with his life [Music] he tells me he is a member of the secret service and then he makes me promise to keep secret this whole affair you see how he ties my hands how do i verify his story without breaking the confidence well at least he agrees with us that paul was murdered yes whether or not by him is another matter he had the means but not a motive that is why we must dig deeper you know i would like to visit the chateau of santa lara but there is a problem monsieur le comte is always there there's one thing he'll always venture out for what the opera thanks ah visiony [Music] take care of her miss you [Laughter] [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] hmm three times a day monsieur gaston belgium found in the pocket of xavier santella thank you you're a genius maybe so but to reopen the case superintendent boucher will need a confession from santalai himself ocula i'm not sure you'd allow me to do this but zandalar holds me in high regard in fact uh you mean he's in love with you oh please don't think i would turn his affections actually far far from it i believe you virginia then why don't i persuade him to talk oh no no need this man he could be a murderer if you were there ah the audacity of the plan of virginia appealed to me very much that night francois had taken madame derola to visit some friends the maid and the cook were there for free for the evening virginia had left the door at the back of the house unlocked and the trap it was ready to be sprung [Music] in spite of our differences paul could be such an amusing man that was thoughtless of me i haven't mentioned his death since it happened and now was too early to do so forgive me no no heavily misunderstand [Music] you see i can't help thinking that his death was a just punishment versiony i know the cause of his death troubles you but he died of heart failure nothing else some people do anything for their faith servier i admire that suppose someone knew that paul had plans to limit the church's power in belgium would it be a sin to remove him to murder him or such people would never be seen as common murderers though but as saviors but at least by the church don't you agree you say all this to comfort me i know i had no right to expect such understanding least of all from a member of his family what do you mean i'm the one responsible for his death visiony you killed him surely as if i'd fired a pistol at his [Music] mr heart what in god's name are you doing here you break into his private apartment now for most men that would be enough but not twirl quarrel then goes on to try to trick him into a confession his last word superintendent before the return of madame darula were as surely as if i had fired the pistol at his heart yes sparrow as if as if as if on the night paul derilard died there was an argument at the table santillar believes that argument led to the seizure that carried paul off i believe that you yourself will question him further i do not need your advice on how to proceed puerto on the contrary you need mine and you will begin by visiting madame de rolla and apologizing to her for all the distress you have caused [Music] [Music] i have come to apologize to you i should like you to stay vergini so you think my son was murdered i believe that your son was poisoned madame by joya santala poisoned santa largely used his own our people so stupid oh yes mother you would be surprised the stonemason he murders with his hammer the cutler with his knife the sweet maker with his soft centers i took some crumbs of chocolate from this box madam may i thank you they contained a substance called trinitrin a drug prescribed to your neighbor gaston bonjour and you questioned him we were them and he told me that the pills they had been stolen and when i searched the chateau of center lard i found there the pill bottle which was empty a finding is one thing can you prove all this tomorrow i have an appointment with the minister of justice and he cannot argue with the scientific analysis of jean-louis ferro and all from one little mistake francois told me to do with chocolate boxes i believe wim adam having taken a few of the chocolates from one box poison them and then put them back into another box the murderer replaced the lid incorrectly the green lid on the pink box [Music] such details are always at the heart of the case madame you said the green lead to the pink box quite so [Music] alan you know that the wrong person doesn't go to the guillotine i beg of you tell me once again what is the color of the lid and what is the color of the box my eyesight is not what it was miss you your prescription for eye drops should have told me of the great burden you carried [Music] for it was you madame who killed your son despite your failing eyesight you added the liquid furniture in from bosch's pills to a sweet filling you then put this mixture into the chocolates from the study of pole you replace the glassy fruit to conceal the lethal concoction within [Music] having poisoned the chocolates which were to kill him you then made your only mistake the wrong lead to the wrong box having used the pills of bosu you then place the pill bottle which was empty into the coat pocket of la conte santa la why madam to get it away from the house don't worry i wouldn't let him die for my crime much as i dislike the man oh why madam why kill your own son because of what he was doing to our country vergini and our church i pray monsieur no woman in the world need ever choose again between love of god and the love of her child but to take a life is a mortal sin mother how can a woman of such conviction so deny her faith paul was a murderer miss you she did not die from an accident [Music] can't you understand it's our future and belgium's future that i'm thinking of i married you for love paul not to advance your political career marianne come back here [Music] he knew i'd seen him do it but we never spoke of it each of us afraid to admit he was capable of doing such a thing oh so instead you taunt him by displaying the photograph before i died i had to see justice done my doctors tell me i have no more than six months left in this world will the truth wait six months monsieur perhaps longer mother you must tell it tell all when i've gone why didn't you why leave it till now and why did virginia say nothing she and i agreed that it would be my decision he was a murderer his mother acted for the greater good of the country i admire the sacrifice her moral courage who does anything these days for the greater good at least i understand why sonalid bears a grudge you trying to trap him like that did you never make your peace with him when had i told him the reason why i suspected no had i told him the reason why i suspected him that i found the bottle of trinitrine in his coat pocket he might then have asked me who put it there madame darula i could not risk his curiosity i wrote to him of course apologizing for my behavior which was foolhardy irresponsible and now that he agrees with that to this very day claude would you sit there please chief inspector one of those things we have to live with in our profession wait yes to see you is to be young again i've thought about you often down the years thank you hercule i would like you to meet my two sons this is henry honore and this brave fellow is hercule hercule you are indeed fortunate to have such fans sons henry he has the look of someone yes no perhaps i am wrong no i am right oculoso there is a definite resemblance to someone i know my wife perhaps [Music] hello [Music] i was just saying to you that he was always the most fortunate of men uh [Music] you

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Length: 52min 47sec (3167 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020